I still believe that we can moderate ourselves.
Soon or later,through a short period of time,the balance will come with the one way or another.
Despite the popular beliefe,there is no lack of intelligence in gentoo forum.

Yeah, well, we all know how that worked out just great on Wikipedia and the Sollog incident. Let that be a reminder of what can happen. At least we have mods/admins here that stop things from getting that blanently out of control.

I've never been a big advocate on post-count either, and no, my post-count has really been this low in the 2 years that I have been here. There was just really no need for me to post that much. Of course, I have been away for a year and a half, so that kinda helps keep the post-count low as well._________________Nothing to read in this sig. Move along.

Sorry if this has already been said, but why not make OTW into what it probably should be:

Quote:

Off the Wall
Want to talk about Linux issues not related to Gentoo? Or anything else not related to Gentoo? Post it here.

I've actually used OTW several times for non-gentoo related linux stuff or tech stuff in general. Why not just have the mods delete out all the religion / political / etc crap that floods OTW. Just leave the tech threads that aren't necessarily gentoo related.

Edit: s/linux/gentoo/_________________HASH BANG SLASH BIN SLASH BASH

in a world without fences, who needs gates?

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AS I said, it did work on some other forums, but it will take some time. Other forums have gone a step further (after similar tests) and banned OTW altogether or allowing 'Computer' OTW only (I'm not going to get into the politics of that).

It'll be interesting to see if works here.

On the other fourms I go to where they did the same thing, it hasn't diluted the other threads. /me shrugs

Jokeing that depends on your definition, a satirical statement, weather i am saying i would do it, or that someone might do it are not the same things.

You are correct, which is why I asked for clarification.

Jokeing implies it is funny, it is a serious point, however, one i doubt you have thought about. before you decide that punishment was a fun idea. The only reason i do still care about this account is because this is my username everywhere. and it is part of my identity._________________

Code:

#include "forums.h"
int main() {while (bollox) postcount++;}

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I agree with posts in OTW not counting as part of post-count. I was quite surprised at first that this was so. However I'm not sure that will solve the civism problems of OTW. Only time will tell._________________There is a lot of novelty and truth in what you say, but that which is true is not novel and that which is novel is not true.

or at least restrict it to computer or technology topics. religion, politics, sex, our favorite foods, and personal attacks, whatever, just makes too much noise. It's bad enough having to sift thru all those other language posts. If you wanna discuss those topics, there are other forums to do that. A few links have been posted.

Click on "new since last visit" and it can be pages and pages with only a half dozen interesting/relevant topics. I know interesting/relevant is subjective, but I'm sure my point is clear. This is a gentoo forum. I'd like to see it used for that. It's just gotten too way outta hand lately.

Personally I'd hate to see OTW go as it's really a great place to kill time and talk to people you normally probably wouldn't talk to (where else am I supposed to stumble upon Texan republicans? ).

But these are the gentoo forums, they are here to support the distribution and it's users, so if OTW does indeed drain too much recources killing it would be a good thing.

Finally, can anybody enlighten me if there are really people that care about their postcount? I mean, if anything my amount of posts showed that I was spending entirely too much time hanging around here, so seeing my postcount go down is actually a good thin._________________The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
- Frank Zappa

Personally I'd hate to see OTW go as it's really a great place to kill time and talk to people you normally probably wouldn't talk to (where else am I supposed to stumble upon Texan republicans? ).

But these are the gentoo forums, they are here to support the distribution and it's users, so if OTW does indeed drain too much recources killing it would be a good thing.

Finally, can anybody enlighten me if there are really people that care about their postcount? I mean, if anything my amount of posts showed that I was spending entirely too much time hanging around here, so seeing my postcount go down is actually a good thin.

If they had never been in place i wouldn't have cared, but being scolled like a naughty school boy i don't like._________________

or at least restrict it to computer or technology topics. religion, politics, sex, our favorite foods, and personal attacks, whatever, just makes too much noise. It's bad enough having to sift thru all those other language posts. If you wanna discuss those topics, there are other forums to do that. A few links have been posted

That's exactly what I was saying. Hopefully, that'll happen (rather than just getting rid of OTW all together)._________________HASH BANG SLASH BIN SLASH BASH

Jokeing implies it is funny, it is a serious point, however, one i doubt you have thought about.

Thought about what?

nyteryda wrote:

before you decide that punishment was a fun idea. The only reason i do still care about this account is because this is my username everywhere. and it is part of my identity.

I don't see how postcount is related to your account being banned.

If you don't have a postcount to lose ? why would you care if your account got banned ? (unless like me your username is important too you) if no cares about said banning you are free to behave as badly as you like, with streams of alternate accounts and proxies etc._________________

This is exactly what will send OTW down the drain, so please, behave yourselves or at least exchange pms._________________The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
- Frank Zappa

WTF? I love the nerds from OTW. Without them and their comments Gentoo community wouldn't be the same as before. Just imagine Lovechild, Curtis911, Cokehabit and everyone else posts in a regular forum (Installing Gentoo for example). N00Bs will be scared. _________________Gentoo Linux - Die Metadistribution